Human-environment interactions

Human-environment interactions

Our research on human-environment interactions explores the dynamic relationship between humans and their surroundings, focusing on how environmental factors shape human migration, settlement, and cultural adaptation.

This work emphasizes the role of climate and landscape in facilitating ancient migrations, such as the peopling of Sahul, while highlighting how humans have historically influenced biodiversity through activities like hunting and land use. By integrating advanced modeling techniques and archaeological insights, your research uncovers patterns of human adaptability and resilience, as well as the ecological consequences of human activity.

This theme also addresses how historical human-environment interactions can inform sustainable practices in the present and future

Main contributions

Saltré, F., et al, (2024). Environmental conditions associated with initial northern expansion of anatomically modern humans. Nature Communications, 15 (1): 4364.

Norman, K., et al, (2024). Sea level rise drowned a vast habitable area of north-western Australia driving long-term cultural change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121 (1) e2311280120.

Bradshaw, CJA., et al, (2023). Directionally supervised cellular automaton for the initial peopling of Sahul. Quaternary Geochronology, 79: 101489.

Bradshaw, CJA., et al, (2021). Stochastic models support rapid peopling of Late Pleistocene Sahul. Nature Communications, 10:5311.

Crabtree, S., et al, (2021). Landscape rules predict optimal superhighways for the first peopling of Sahul. Nature Human Behaviour 42: 1587-1599.

Bird, MI., et al, (2019). Early human settlement of Sahul was not an accident. Global Change Biology, 24: 1371-1381.

Peters, KJ., et al, (2019). FosSahul2.0: An updated database for the Late Quaternary fossil records of Sahul. Nature Communications, 7(1): 10511.

Lurgi, M., et al, (2015). Modelling range dynamics under global change: which framework and why. Method in Ecology & Evolution, 6(3): 247-256.